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This book contains the papers presented at a symposium organized by the Dutch committee for the History of the Earth Sciences. The title examines a wide variety of subjects: the pioneering stratigraphic studies of the 18th-century naturalist Francq van Berkhey, Dutch contributions to the basalt controversy, geology in the Belgian provinces, the geology lectures (1863) of Staring and his geological map of the Netherlands, the mineral work of Hermann Vogelsang, the Maastricht Cretaceous finds in the emergence of Dutch vertebrate palaeontology, and the founding of groundwater hydrology in the Netherlands (1850-1950). It also features an unpublished mineralogical treatise of Wiechmann. As a bonus the book has an interesting study on the suitability of Ha�y's crystal models to identify minerals, preceded by an historical analysis of the role these models played in the birth of crystallography and mineralogy.

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Florike Egmond is a postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden Scaliger Institute.Paul G. Hoftijzer is professor in the history of the book in the early modern period and senior lecture in the Department of Book and Digital Media Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Robert P. W. Visser is the Teylers Professor of the History of the Natural Sciences at Leiden University and senior lecturer in the Institute for the History of Natural Science at Utrecht University.

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